DEP aims to alleviate concerns about flooding at Rahway Arch project

Fear of flooding

8:58 AM,
Sep. 15, 2013

One of three houses destroyed along Noe Street in Carteret is pictured after a flooded home filled with natural gas exploded just after residents were recused from the raising flood waters of Superstorm Sandy. One of the reloacted residents, Susan Lindh, said she is suspicious of the flood impact of the Rahway Arch project on the borough's banks of the Rahway River despite state assurances that remediation of the toxic site won't cause flood issues.

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Worried Central Jersey flood victims are gathering Tuesday to discuss their concerns with the state's approval of the Rahway Arch project, a remediation and redevelopment of a Carteret toxic sludge site within a tidal floodplain on the Rahway River.

The 125-acre project would remediate six structurally compromised sludge pits formerly owned by American Cyanamid. Leaking cyanide and other toxins into the river, the pits would be capped with a 29-foot landfill consisting of 2 tons of contaminated soil that would provide the host borough with $2.7 million in tipping fees. Those funds ...